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Lauren Pressley (BA in Communication, North Carolina State University, 2002; BA in Philosophy, North Carolina State University, 2003; MLIS, University of North Carolina – Greensboro, in progress) is the microtext assistant at Wake Forest University. She lives in downtown Winston-Salem, NC, but spends several evenings a week in Greensboro.

She’s been hanging out in libraries since she was a child. Her first library experience was with a kind librarian at Farmington Woods Elementary in Cary, NC. She volunteered with an energetic, red-convertible driving librarian at York Elementary, and in the public libraries of Wake County, NC. Her first student job in college was with the interlibrary loan department of D. H. Hill Library at North Carolina State University and her first full-time job was with the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University.

Now she spends her time learning as much as possible in her current position at WFU and in class at UNC-G.

Her developing interests involve information literacy and emerging technology in libraries. Of course, you see a lot of that here.

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The Awesomeness of Archives and Mashups

zomg. You have to click through and look at these pictures. Please come back, though. I’ll wait.
Okay, did you see them? Weren’t they awesome?!
Seeing these pictures made me think about mashups again. I often talk about mashups in my lib100 classes. They’re a good tool for helping people think about how technology changes things [...]

A Friday Library Day in the Life: Getting Ready for Monday

The final day of Library Day in the Life week was all about getting ready for Monday. Our new Fellow starts then (Hi Gretchen!), and I wanted to make sure that I had all of my ducks in row… at least as many as I could get in order. So the bulk of the day [...]

¶ Posted 30 July 2010 § actions § my job ‡ Comments (1) °

A Thursday Library Day in the Life: Catching Up!

I have finally figured out (it only took me three days!) that every little task I have on my “get back into the swing of things” list is going to take longer than expected. Now it’s all going to be about setting realistic goals. So with that, today I caught up with a [...]

¶ Posted 29 July 2010 § actions § my job ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: librarydayinthelife

A Wednesday Library Day in the Life: Planning

This day has flown by. John had an early meeting today, so I dropped Leif off on my own this morning for the first time. It was touch-and-go there for a minute, but it went better than I expected. Then, I headed in and straight to the parking office to resolve issues for the second [...]

¶ Posted 28 July 2010 § actions § my job ‡ Comments (5) °

A Tuesday Library Day in the Life: Pomodoros and Zen To Done

Day two was a little more productive. Unfortunately it didn’t start out that way. Yesterday I got my first parking ticket ever at a university (and I’ve been spending most of my time on one campus or another for the past twelve years). Over the summer WFU changed how parking works. I did request the [...]